Last week Glen Loyd told us about Thomas G. Smith who learned how to make movies filming farmers here in Southern Wisconsin and went on to work with Steven Spielbeg and George Lucas on films such as Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Poltergeist. Glen has another early movie by Thomas G. Smith. For more information on Thomas G. Smith go tohttp://www.afana.org/smitht.htm

Dec 12, 2015

Thomas G Smith was a special effects coordinator under Steven Spielberg and George Lucas on films such as Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Poltergeist . He was also General Manager of the George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic studio. This week, Glen Loyd has an early film made by Smith for Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Films about a Southern Wisconsin Farm family.

The eagles in this video were photographed by Darin Pfaff at Lake Mills, WI. He was fishing a weed bed full of blue gill and perch. "The eagles found me there one Saturday and moved in," says Pfaff. "I had fish for breakfast only one weekend because the birds wiped out the weed bed in short order."

Oct 26, 2015

Neil Rettig of Prarie du Chien, WI is a world-renowned, 6-time Emmy award winning cinematographer who works with National Geographic, the BBc, PBS and IMax. Neil tells our Glen Loyd why he and his wife, Laura, picked Wisconsin for their home base

Oct 11, 2015

Thanks to everyone who watches my weekly Janesville, WI Gazette videos on You Tube. I've just reached a total of 300,536 views. I will have close to 80,000 views this year alone, a gain of 10,000 over 2014. Some of my individual videos have had 45,000 views.

Neil Rettig of Prairie du Chien is a world-renown, 6-time Emmy award winning cinematographer who works with National Geographic, the BBC, PBS, and I Max.From the Wisconsin cliffs of the Mississippi River, Neil filmed the American Eagle for the PBS Nature series and has also documented rare forest eagles--the Harpy eagle of Central and South America and the Philippine eagle.He also trained snow geese to fly by the Statue of Liberty with Go Pro cameras for the BBC's First Flight programs Glen Loyd continues his conversations with Neil Rettig at his home near the Mississippi.

Oct 9, 2015

Oct 4, 2015

Genesis1:16 And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night...

There is nothing like an eclipse of the moon to get scientists revved up with explanations. But man and his mathematicians don't know everything about the universe. Despite finding water on Mars, NASA sa.ys it still doesn't know if life exists beyond earth. And Wikipedia says the size of the universe is unknown and may be infinite. When I was filming the eclipse this week, it was hard not to sense something Biblical about it

Striking quickly with their sharp bills, these pterodacytyl-like monsters have no natural predators and can even cause serious injury to humans. Great blue heron chicks are often aggressive toward each other and some are pushed out of the nest.--Seattle Audubon Society.

Sep 21, 2015

In the past, there have been Wisconsin consumers sorry they attended get-rich-quick real estate seminars in hotels. Two things to keep in mind: out-of-town businesses that operate in hotels eventually leave town. And if real estate deals are so profitable why aren't these experts taking their own advice rather than trying to sell it to you?

Sometimes you see a lot of deer along the Rock River in Janesville. If you are very lucky, you will see them swimming. If you have hostas, they will visit your backyard and leave you with nubs. Or deer may suddenly appear at your backyard cook out, and then gallop off. I've seen groups of them come up from the river at the western edge of Lustig park, jump the fence at the Wisconsin School for the Blind and then race around residential areas in the middle of the street. The ones you will see in this video were filmed at Lustig before they jumped the fence.

Sep 7, 2015

My Weekly Janesville Gazette Video
Just up river from my Studio in Janesville is the It's a Keeper Bait Shop, a fun place if you're hankering to catch a fish or hungry. Children are welcome and appreciated.

Aug 30, 2015

Last night in V formation, hundreds of Canadian Geese flew over the Rock River in Janesville, honking and crying, while getting in shape for a long journey. Other birds are itching to go, too. (In this video I mentioned that the Weather Channel wanted to feature my recent purple martin video, but they ended up not using it.)

Aug 23, 2015

KDFW-TV
I was the consumer reporter at this Dallas, Texas TV station 40 years ago. When KDFW-TV submitted one of my investigations along with others from reporters there, the station won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence. .

Aug 20, 2015

Aug 16, 2015

This week's video is about dabbling ducks. Some ducks dive under water to find food while others called dabblers rarely dive and find food closer to the water's surface. See Wikipedia for a full explanation.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck

Aug 3, 2015

In his video this week,Glen Loyd filmed the favorite bird of Mozart. The musical genius was so fond of his pet starling because it could whistle his Piano Concerto in G Minor. When the beloved bird died after living with Mozart for 3 years, he arranged an elaborate funeral for it.

PRESS RELEASE: Kohl’s Department Stores Agrees to Settlement in Civil Protection Lawsuit of
Nearly $1 Million
District Attorney Jeffrey S. Rosell announced today that Kohl’s Corporation (“Kohl’s”)
agreed to a settlement of $958,686.27 stemming from a civil complaint filed by the Santa Cruz
County District Attorney’s Office along with Fresno, Riverside, and Shasta county District
Attorneys. The complaint alleged that Kohl’s charged customers a higher price than the prices
advertised on store shelves and signs. The complaint also alleged that material disclosures
relating to the “Kohl’s Cash” program were not adequately made in Kohl’s advertisements.
The case arose from scanner/price inspections by multiple county Weights & Measures
units, including the Santa Cruz County Department of Weights & Measures. Kohl’s cooperated
with inspectors and the prosecutor’s offices during the investigation and has instituted new
policies and procedures to improve pricing accuracy. Without admitting wrongdoing, Kohl’s
consented to the settlement that includes injunctive provisions to ensure future compliance, as
well the payment for civil penalties, costs of investigation, and restitution.
The matter was prosecuted for Santa Cruz County by Assistant District Attorney Kelly
Walker, who said, “Our consumer protection unit brings these types of actions to ensure that
customers are charged the correct price when paying at the register. Consumers in Santa Cruz
County who believe they are a victim of a price overcharge may contact either the Santa Cruz
County District Attorney’s Office Consumer Protection Unit at (831) 454-2601 or the Santa Cruz
County Department of Weights & Measures at (831) 454-2383.

Jul 5, 2015

Many of us are seeing a video on Facebook and TV about a mother rabbit trying to protect her babies from a snake. Well, a few years ago, I witnessed and filmed something similar in my own backyard in Janesville: A mother rabbit protecting her babies from a gang of four hungry crows.

Jun 21, 2015

Last year a Department of Natural Resources survey found 1,279 occupied eagle nests in Wisconsin. Only four were in Rock County and 7 in Dane County. Glen Loyd has been documenting an eagle family east of Madison.

Opinion from gizmodoWhat’s really in a $200 pair of Beats headphones? According to a teardown by venture capital firm Bolt, about $16.89 worth of parts. They found a device mostly made out of injection-molded plastic, pieces of metal that serve no purpose other than to make the headphones feel heavier than they really are, and a whole lot of glue.

From a distance, Great Blue Herons and Sand Hill Cranes look similar. But but close up, you see herons have a white face and Sandhills are grey with a red crown. Rolling in mud can give Sandhills a redish-brown appearance. Great Blue Herons fly with their necks tucked back while Sandshills don't